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Report: Leonsis Agrees on Price for Wizards

Since the death of longtime Wizards owner Abe Pollin, his estate and Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis have been negotiating a sale of the NBA team. In 2000, Leonsis became a minority owner of the Wizards, and negotiated into the deal an exclusive window during which he would be the only bidder when the Pollin family...

Arenas' Conduct Insults Memory of Pollin

It has been one thing for Gilbert Arenas not to play up to the six-year, $111 million contract that the Wizards' recently dearly departed owner Abe Pollin gave him a year and a half ago. Arenas' surgically repaired knee hasn't allowed him to play at his old form. Injury is frustrating, but it is understandable.It is quite...

Ted Leonsis in Line to Take Over Wizards

As Washington, D.C., and the NBA community mourn the loss of Wizards owner Abe Pollin, the future of the franchise sits in question. Unlike the situations in Salt Lake City, Detroit and Indiana, where NBA team owners have also passed away in last nine months, the Wizards will apparently not stay in the family.In 1999, when...

Abe Pollin Built More Than Wizards

WASHINGTON -- If you aren't from the nation's capital, my hometown, and you know the name Abe Pollin at all, it is probably because of his audacity. At the end of the 2002-2003 NBA season, he fired from the team he owned, the Washington Wizards, Michael Jordan. Such a remembrance would be as understandable as it would be...

Abe Pollin Dies at 85

Abe Pollin, who has owned the Washington Wizards since 1964 when they were the Baltimore Bullets, has died. He was 85 years old. Pollin had suffered from an undisclosed chronic illness for the past several years, one which confined him to a wheelchair but didn't keep him away from the Wiz. Pollin had previously owned the...

Background on abe pollin

Abe Pollin (December 3, 1923 – November 24, 2009) was the owner of a number of professional sports teams including the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Washington Wizards in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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